2024 - Spreadsheet Tasks
2024 - Spreadsheet Tasks
Task 2 – Spreadsheet
This file will be used in steps 2 and 3. Do not make any changes to this file.
Save the file j32sightings.csv as a spreadsheet with the filename Giraffe_ followed by your centre
number_candidate number, for example Giraffe_ZZ999_9999
Rows 7 to 25 will show the number of sightings of the tagged giraffes in each country for one week
in February. Rows 28 onwards show the details of all sightings for this week.
Place your name, centre number and candidate number centre aligned in the header.
Place the text Created on followed by a space, the automated date, a space, then the text at
followed by a space, then the automated time in the footer.
[3]
2 Place a replicable formula in cell D28 to look up the species, using the code and the external file
j32giraffe.csv for the array. [6]
3 Place a replicable formula in cell F28 to look up the status, using the code and the external file
j32giraffe.csv for the array. [1]
4 Replicate the formulae entered in steps 2 and 3 for all sightings. [1]
5 Place in cell B3 a formula to count the total number of sightings for this 7 day period. [2]
6 Place in cell B4 a formula to count the total number of sightings for this 7 day period where a
photograph of a critically endangered species was taken. [5]
8 Place a replicable formula in cell B8 to display the number of sightings of a critically endangered
species in this country.
A B
Tagged giraffe
1 sightings
2
Number of sightings in 7 day
70
3 period
Number of critically
endangered sightings with 12
4 photograph
5
6 Critically endangered
Number of
Country
7 sightings
8 Botswana 0
9 Burundi 0
10 Cameroon 2
• it is in landscape orientation
• the row and column headings are displayed
• all formulae are fully visible.
[2]
11 Select rows 1 to 7 inclusive and only the rows between 8 and 26 where a sighting took place.
Take a screenshot of the method used to select these rows (between 8 and 26). Place this
screenshot in your Evidence Document.
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